WordPress 4.6 “Pepper” Is Released

Version 4.6 of WordPress, named “Pepper” in honor of jazz baritone saxophonist Park Frederick “Pepper” Adams III, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.6 help you to focus on the important things while feeling more at home.

Thanks to all the translators WordPress 4.6 in available to use in 50 languages.

Some of the major upgrades include:

Streamlined Updates
Don’t lose your place: stay on the same page while you update, install, and delete your plugins and themes.

Native Fonts
The WordPress dashboard now takes advantage of the fonts you already have, making it load faster and letting you feel more at home on whatever device you use.

Inline Link Checker
Ever accidentally made a link to https://wordpress.org/example.org? Now WordPress automatically checks to make sure you didn’t.

Content Recovery
As you type, WordPress saves your content to the browser. Recovering saved content is even easier with WordPress 4.6.

Resource Hints
Resource hints help browsers decide which resources to fetch and preprocess. WordPress 4.6 adds them automatically for your styles and scripts making your site even faster.

Customizer APIs for Setting Validation and Notifications
Settings now have an API for enforcing validation constraints. Likewise, customizer controls now support notifications, which are used to display validation errors instead of failing silently.

Multisite, now faster than ever
Cached and comprehensive site queries improve your network admin experience. The addition of WP _Site_Query and WP _Network_Query help craft advanced queries with less effort.

About Konstantinos Zournas

Konstantinos studied Computer Engineering and Computer Science in London and lives in Athens, Greece. He works on domain names, websites and software development. Has been online since 1995 & domaining since 2002.